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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1882
Page
2
The Register reports a California girl who fell seventy feet while walking with a young man was left clinging to life for days, regained consciousness after 449 hours, amid a robbery attack and ensuing sensational notes on other varied tales from Fraser’s Magazine to Irish probate cases and New York City debates.
A Cooper daughter writes to the Detroit Free Press that he asked no life sketch after death. The family notes his life spanned seas and many lands, with Otsego Hall burned after his death. It recalls his daily routine of two hours writing at Otsego Hall, then working his nearby farm, a constant battle with mountain ledges and uncertain crops but steady effort.
The piece argues civilization has not replaced base appetites as entertainment and wealth exceed virtue and knowledge. It cites C. B. Frothingham on societal values, then notes the Paris widow of Baron Solomon de Rothschild, living with her daughter in the Faubourg Saint Honore, among Paris’s richest figures.
A clergyman recounts chilling experiences at the Northwest England Old Lodge in 1879. Unseen knocks, moving furniture, dripping water, a concertina note in the night, and spectral visits by Mrs N. are related with matter-of-fact detail by the narrator and his family, leading to a cautious acceptance of inexplicable events.
In 1822 William Eustis and Harrison Gray Otis contested the Massachusetts governorship as Unitarian candidates. Rumors swirled about Eustis's orthodoxy boosting him in Western Massachusetts. After voting Otis confronted Eustis in a moment of confidential exchange. The scene resembled a farcical play with a near empty house as dialogues unfolded.
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